A-Rod's an A-Hole

Thank goodness he's not on my team. While my beloved Red Sox enjoy the largest lead they've had over the Evil Empire since 1978, all the talk in the New York tabloids is Alex Rodriguez, and none of it is about winning. While his personal life should remain just that - his excapades with the buxom blonde slumpbuster should stay between him, Mrs. A-Rod and their two-year old child - now we get another example of his bush-league mentality. Last night in Toronto, in the ninth inning, two outs, with his team up two runs, he's rounding third as the thirdbaseman Howie Clark circles under a fly ball on the infield. As Slappy McCantcatch passes behind Clark, he yells out "Mine," causing Clark to back away to avoid a collision with his shortstop he believes is calling for the ball. It drops, and eventually three runs score. Toronto manager John Gibbons pleads interference to the umpires as A-Hole stands on third with his best George Bush smirk. After the game Rodriguez says he yelled "Hah" - I'm not the best lip-reader, but it sure looks like an m to me.

This represents a pattern of behaviour, from his elbow to the groin of Dustin Pedroia last week all the way back to slapping the ball out of Bronson Arroyo's glove in 2004. I know he's not thinking when he does these things, he's going on instinct - I also know a good person's instinct is not to cheat. Now, I can't find my copy of the unwritten rule book, but I'm pretty sure this kind of crap is in there. Red Sox GM Theo Epstein, while avoiding direct comment, did say there are "certain things that you just don’t do to the opposition on the baseball field.” If it is indeed no big deal, that it happens "three or four times a week" as Rodgriguez claims, why are none of his Yanker teammates speaking up for him? Why wouldn't one of them say "Hey, this kind of stuff happens all the time, leave him alone?" Derek Jeter, one of the classiest men in baseball, said "Why don't you ask him about it?" Not exactly a ringing endorsement for his former sleepover buddy, the man who will someday break Hank Aaron's record, maybe even before Barry Bonds does.

Yep the Yankees are all the talk in the baseball world this summer. And not a bit of it is about winning. Good times.

New Funny!!

I was just talking to Duh Chief today and he blurted out one of the funniest phrases I have heard in quite a while. "Sucks me off.." As in "Well that sucks me off!". It's a mixture of sucks and pissed off. It's grand. I've used it several times already. The train is moving too fast for me to jump on one of it's boxcars, well that sucks me off. You can use it for anything and everything. Don't be shy, use it with your friends and neighbors. When your dad calls and asks how your car is running, you say "It sucks me off!" angrily. What it is is the context. You people are smart enough to know how to use it and adapt it to any situation that suits you.

Have a grand day,

Smarmy